Activation energy variations

If different crystal faces have different activation energies, variation of the temperature at which crystallization takes place modifies individual growth rates to varying degrees and results in a modified crystal shape. 

This means that desorption activation energies can be much larger than those for adsorption and very dependent on 6 since the variation of Q with 6 now contributes directly. The rate of desorption may be written, following the kinetic treatment of the Langmuir model. 

Fig. XVIII-15. Oxygen atom diffusion on a W(IOO) surface (a) variation of the activation energy for diffusion with d and (b) variation of o- (From Ref. 136. Reprinted with kind permission of Elsevier Science-NL, Sara Burgerhartstraat 25, 1055 KV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)...

Fig. 8. Variation of activation energy with kinetic molecular diameter for diffusion in 4A 2eohte (A), 5A 2eohte (0)> carbon molecular sieve (MSC-5A) (A). Kinetic diameters are estimated from the van der Waals co-volumes. From ref. 7. To convert kj to kcal divide by 4.184.

Maleic and fiimaric acids have physical properties that differ due to the cis and trans configurations about the double bond. Aqueous dissociation constants and solubiUties of the two acids show variations attributable to geometric isomer effects. X-ray diffraction results for maleic acid (16) reveal an intramolecular hydrogen bond that accounts for both the ease of removal of the first carboxyl proton and the smaller dissociation constant for maleic acid compared to fumaric acid. Maleic acid isomerizes to fumaric acid with a derived heat of isomerization of —22.7 kJ/mol (—5.43 kcal/mol) (10). The activation energy for the conversion of maleic to fumaric acid is 66.1 kJ/mol (15.8 kcal/mol) (24). 

Volumetric heat generation increases with temperature as a single or multiple S-shaped curves, whereas surface heat removal increases linearly. The shapes of these heat-generation curves and the slopes of the heat-removal lines depend on reaction kinetics, activation energies, reactant concentrations, flow rates, and the initial temperatures of reactants and coolants (70). The intersections of the heat-generation curves and heat-removal lines represent possible steady-state operations called stationary states (Fig. 15). Multiple stationary states are possible. Control is introduced to estabHsh the desired steady-state operation, produce products at targeted rates, and provide safe start-up and shutdown. Control methods can affect overall performance by their way of adjusting temperature and concentration variations and upsets, and by the closeness to which critical variables are operated near their limits. 

Although supported Pd catalysts have been the most extensively studied for butadiene hydrogenation, a number of other catalysts have also been the object of research studies. Some examples are Pd film catalysts, molybdenum sulfide, metal catalysts containing Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Os, Ir, Pt, Cu, MgO, HCo(CN) on supports, and LaCoC Perovskite. There are many others (79—85). Studies on the weU-characteri2ed Mo(II) monomer and Mo(II) dimer on siUca carrier catalysts have shown wide variations not only in catalyst performance, but also of activation energies (86). 

Soil Temperature. In temperate climates, NO and NjO emission rates increase with increasing soil temperature and a response to diurnal and seasonal temperature variations has been reported freqnently." Activation energies for both soil NO and NjO emissions are usually in the range of 30-150 kJ mol ... 

Many computational studies in heterocyclic chemistry deal with proton transfer reactions between different tautomeric structures. Activation energies of these reactions obtained from quantum chemical calculations need further corrections, since tunneling effects may lower the effective barriers considerably. These effects can either be estimated by simple models or computed more precisely via the determination of the transmission coefficients within the framework of variational transition state calculations [92CPC235, 93JA2408]. 

The IIEC model was also used to study the importance of various design parameters. Variations in gas flow rates and channeling in the bed are not the important variables in a set of first-order kinetics. The location of the catalytic bed from the exhaust manifold is a very important variable when the bed is moved from the exhaust manifold location to a position below the passenger compartment, the CO emission averaged over the cycle rose from 0.14% to 0.29% while the maximum temperature encountered dropped from 1350 to 808°F. The other important variables discovered are the activation energy of the reactions, the density and heat... 

The propagation rate constant did not depend on the monomer concentration which corresponds to the first-order propagation step. The activation energy of the propagation calculated according to the variation of Kp with temperature was found to be 6.5 0.5 kcal/mole. 

Hcuts et a .,64 while not disputing that penultimate units might influence the activation energies, proposed on the basis of theoretical calculations that penultimate unit effects of the magnitude seen in Ihe S-AN and other systems (i.e. 2-5 fold) can also be explained by variations in the entropy of activation for the process. They also proposed that this effect would mainly influence rate rather than specificity. 

Fig. 13. Plot of variations of activation energy ( /kJ mole"1) with water vapour pressure (PHjO/Torr) for dehydration of calcium sulphate. Data from Ball et al. [281,590, 591] who discuss the significance of these kinetic parameters. Dehydrations of CaS04 2 H2O, nucleation ( ), boundary (o) and diffusion (e) control Q-CaSC>4 5 H2O, diffusion control, below (X) and above (+) 415 K j3-CaS04 5 H20, diffusion control ( ).

Activation energies and log A values have been determined for some compounds over the temperature range 40.06-50.18 °C but the range of the former is barely outside the possible experimental error of 1.5 kcal.mole-1 for rates reproducible to 1.5 % (as quoted) for a 10 °C measurement range, and similar conclusions apply to the log A values, so that discussion of the variations is inappropriate, especially since the values depend upon the medium composition679 68°. The activation energies averaged 21.0 and the log A values ca. 11.5 (after correction of rates to sec-1) so that a concerted reaction (proposed earlier) would seem to be quite possible since the entropy of activation will be of the order of 7 e.u. 

Typical examples of electrophobic reactions are shown on Fig. 4.28 for the catalytic oxidation ofC2H4 and ofCH4 on Pt/YSZ. As also shown in this figure, increasing also causes a linear variation in activation energy Ea ... 

This linear variation in catalytic activation energy with potential and work function is quite noteworthy and, as we will see in the next sections and in Chapters 5 and 6, is intimately linked to the corresponding linear variation of heats of chemisorption with potential and work function. More specifically we will see that the linear decrease in the activation energies of ethylene and methane oxidation is due to the concomitant linear decrease in the heat of chemisorption of oxygen with increasing catalyst potential and work function. 

Such linear or near-linear variations in activation energy E with work function as the one shown in Fig. 4.28 but also in Figures 4.35 to 4.37 are quite common in electrochemical promotion studies and are usually accompanied by a concomitant linear variation in the logarithm of the preexponential factor, r°, defined from ... 

The observed linear variation in activation energy, E, and in the preexponential factor r0/ r° (Figs. 4.35 to 4.37), which conform to the equations ... 

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